Carmignac Photojournalism Award: A Retrospective at London’s Saatchi Gallery

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Carmignac Photojournalism Award: A Retrospective at London’s Saatchi Gallery
Massimo Berruti, Mahnbanr, 2011. © Massimo Berruti for the Carmignac Foundation.



LONDON.- The Fondation Carmignac is presenting Carmignac Photojournalism Award: A Retrospective at London’s Saatchi Gallery from 18 November to 13 December 2015.

The exhibition features a total of 40 works, produced since the Award’s 2009 inception by all laureates past and present.

The first room of the exhibition is entirely dedicated to the Iranian photojournalist and fifth Carmignac laureate, Newsha Tavakolian. Tavakolian’s project explores the lives of young middle class Iranians caught between the pressures of an increasingly modern society and a revolutionary Islamic ideology. Photographs from the winning projectproduced in 2013 are shown alongside video installations first exhibited at the Venice Biennale this year.

Chechnya forms the focus of four works on show by Italian photojournalist, Davide Monteleone. Taken from the report Monteleone produced from December 2012 - April 2013 as part of the fourth Carmignac laureateship, the portfolio’s title Spasibo, (Russian for ‘thank you’) can be interpreted as an ironic gesture of gratitude to Chechnya’s oppressors.

Four works also are being displayed by the third winner of the Award, Robin Hammond. Taking Zimbabwe as its subject, Hammond’s work charts the violent decline of the country at the mercy of the Mugabe regime. On two occasions during the process, officials caught up with Hammond, culminating in a 26-day imprisonment and eventual deportation as a ‘Prohibited Immigrant’.

Documenting the Pashtun civilian militia’s conflicts with the Taliban in the Swat Valley, Pakistan, second laureate Massimo Berruti’s report reveals both the situation caused by the Taliban, and the resistance mounted by the local population with only minimal resources.

The exhibition line-up is completed by the Award’s first ever laureate, Kai Wiedenhöfer. Photographs from his series, focused on the theme of Gaza, aim to provide an unsentimental portrayal of the Israeli attack that took place in January 2009 and its effects on the people and the buildings of the Strip.

At the end of the exhibition, the incumbent laureate Christophe Gin, introduces his series about French Guiana, with one photograph. Working to the theme of Lawless Areas in France - selected by the Fondation Carmignac as the subject for the sixth edition of the Award - his black and white photographs investigate the highly hermetic societies of this overseas region in France.

An exhibition dedicated to Christophe Gin’s series is currently being presented at the Chapelle des Beaux-Arts de Paris from 5 November to 5 December 2015.










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